Stop striking, bench tells bar: Karnataka HC asks state bar associations to implement the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) 29 September 2002 resolution which limits an advocate’s absence from court proceedings to one day. Court gives three months to the associations to establish a “grievance redressal c...

Kesavananda doctrine turns 40: India celebrates 40 years of “saving the democracy” on today’s anniversary of Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala where a 13-judge constitutional bench held that the parliament cannot amend the constitution to alter its “basic structure”. The Hindu narrates the full ...

JAC of all trades: The union law ministry proposes a Judicial Appointments Committee comprising of the Chief Justice of India, two sitting SC judges, two presidentially appointed eminent jurists, the union law minister, and secretary department of law and justice [ NDTV ] ‘Peculiar’ extension: Supre...

Nalsar voyeur action: Nalsar Hyderabad executive council has vowed to set up a committee to take short and long term action against the victimisation of women by voyeuristic media. This follows Friday’s incident where TV channels aired and uploaded distorted news segments of an altercation involving...

Nalsar fights media: Nalsar Hyderabad students launch online campaign and vow to sue for slander over local television channels that allegedly forcefully filmed them and edited telecast to show them as drunk and topless outside a city pub where they were celebrating their farewell [ Hindu / TOI ] Fa...

Elysium collegium : CJI Kabir defends collegium system of judges’ appointment, which he says involves “intense deliberations” and adds that people who are not fully aware of the system should refrain from commenting on it [ Outlook ] Double vision 2018 : SC and HC judges mega conference agrees to do...

ILI governatored: Delhi HC’s justice Gita Mittal, senior advocate Rakesh Munjal, CNLU Patna vice chancellor Prof Lakshmikanth and others elected to ILI governing council [ ILI ] Right to AG info: RTI Activist SC Aggarwal appeals in Delhi HC against CIC decision holding attorney general’s office not ...

More drug wars : Global pharma major Merck and domestic co-plaintiff Sun Pharma filed in Delhi HC claiming Glenmark violated two of its diabetes drug patents (Januvia and Janumet) [ Financial Times ] Crown jewel auction : Tata’s Indian Hotels files injunction to stop auction of its leased Taj Mahal ...

Moving up : Bombay HC Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar to become Himachal HC chief justice [ Hill Post ] Merger semi-approved : Bombay HC approves Sterlite-Madras Aluminium merger, Madras HC still to give nod [ Indian Express ] IPL protection money : Bombay high court tells Maha’ government to look ...

Indefinite strike: Dwarka Court Bar Association lodges protest writ in Delhi HC against its 19 February notification reassigning criminal cases in Delhi’s West, Southwest and South districts from Saket and Dwarka courts to Tis Hazari and Patiala House. Association lawyers went on indefinite strike a...

BCI & Gov must resurrect directorate of legal education that was killed due to shortage of central funds, says parliament committee. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Grievances Law and Justice wrote: “The committee fails to comprehend why the government did not accede to the r...

Eight UP RTI information commissioners’ appointments were stalled after last week’s SC judgment mandating the presence of judicial members in benches of two at the information commissions. The panel of names for the UP commission was already finalised last month but will now be scrutinised by the go...

Many Indian lawyers may not find favour with the LPO-career-trajectory for lack of “professional satisfaction”, but fast easy money it sure does make, believe most. Here’s the money-myth dispelling tale of an Indian family lawyer who ended up billing only 10 per cent less working on standardised fam...

ASG Siddharth Luthra produces a letter on behalf of the ministry of chemicals in Supreme Court, and invites the wrath of justices Singhvi and Mukhopadhyay. The bench rebuked the department of pharmaceuticals for its slow action in preparing a national list of essential medicines. “ Was it a silent m...

Delhi gov’t objects to ASG Chandhiok appearing for Delhi lawyers in his capacity as DHCBA president , in their Delhi HC challenge to the recent court fee amendment act by which court fee was hiked tenfold. Gov’t counsel argues that the ASG was appointed by the president and the matter involves a con...

Karnataka HC’s justice Bhaktavatsala loses plate of family law matters listed before him, after outrage over some of his remarks made orally in a divorce matter . Other matters listed before him remain with him. The changes will come into effect from tomorrow. Bhaktavatsala had effectively told a de...

The retirement age for high court judges should be increased from 62 to 65 to match the current retirement age of Supreme Court judges, argues former solicitor general of India TR Andhyarujina. For Supreme Court judges it should, in turn, be raised to 70 to match the international standard, he adds....

Madras HC gets more than one ASG for the first time as senior advocates G Masilamani, 72 and P Wilson, 45 get appointed as ASGs to succeed senior advocate M Ravindran. Masilamani was South India’s first appointed ASG in 1997-98, while Wilson is the youngest ASG of south India [ TOI ] Bombay HC raise...

Calcutta HC lawyers file, while SCBA and West Bengal bar association consider filing, a contempt petition in Cal HC against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee who said, “Why should many judgements today be delivered for money? Why?” in the West Bengal assembly on Tuesday. SCBA president Pravin Parekh sa...

Bombay lawyers must plan in advance the filing of matters with court fees in excess of Rs 10,000, which is the per-day cap on the amount of fee stamps available to the lawyers in Bombay courts. Bombay courts are apparently experiencing a shortage in court fee stamps, learnt a solicitor when he appro...